What Dear Doctor does

Dear Doctor, Inc. is a privately held patient education publishing company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Hopewell Junction, New York (governed by New York law). The company publishes "Dear Doctor - Dentistry & Oral Health," a consumer-facing dental magazine and digital content platform whose editorial content is written exclusively by dental healthcare professionals, distinguishing it from generic health sites. The audience spans general consumers seeking authoritative oral health information and dental professionals who use the materials for patient education and practice marketing.

Dear Doctor's product surface includes 39+ published magazine issues accessible digitally, over 100 educational articles covering cosmetic dentistry, orthodontics, implants, periodontal disease, pediatric oral health, and preventive care, a library of dental procedure and smile makeover videos, expert Q&A consultations, and a recurring Smile Makeover contest feature. The underlying technology is a content management and digital publishing platform that delivers articles, multimedia, and magazine issues through the owned website deardoctor.com. Operations are supported by 11-50 employees and a formal Editorial Advisory Board. The company also operates a dedicated dental marketing services channel for dental professionals.

Revenue is generated through website advertising (display and promotion of third-party dental products and services), supplemented by the dental marketing services channel aimed at professionals. No subscription pricing, transactional revenue, or institutional funding is disclosed. The company is independently owned with no parent, no PE/VC investors, and no M&A activity on record. The "Dear Doctor" mark is a registered USPTO trademark that the company actively enforces.

Name

Dear Doctor

Legal name

Dear Doctor, Inc.

Website

https://deardoctor.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Dear Doctor is a privately held publishing company producing a patient education dental magazine and digital content platform written exclusively by dental professionals, serving consumers and dental professionals via advertising-supported content and practice marketing services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Dental Patient Education Publishing

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical & Clinical Reference (Physicians, Nursing, Allied Health) (EDAGAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Oral Hygiene Instruction & Patient Education (HLABAHAG)

Keywords

• Patient education publishing
• Dental health content
• Oral health magazine
• Consumer dental education
• Professional dental resources

Headquarters

HQ city

Hopewell Junction

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Advertising: Dear Doctor generates revenue through advertising on its website. The site features display advertising and promotes third-party products and services. The legal page notes that featured service providers may have a business relationship with Dear Doctor, and the company reserves the right to use aggregate anonymous user data for advertising reporting.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Dear Doctor publishes patient education content on dentistry and oral health through its digital magazine (Dear Doctor - Dentistry & Oral Health), articles, dental videos, and expert consultations authored by dental healthcare professionals. The company also offers marketing services and resources tailored to dental professionals for practice growth and patient acquisition. All editorial content is evidence-based, grounded in dental and medical science, and produced under the oversight of an Editorial Advisory Board.

Product overview

Dear Doctor - Dentistry & Oral Health is a patient education dental magazine written exclusively by dental healthcare professionals. The company offers a print and digital magazine publication (Dear Doctor - Dentistry & Oral Health Magazine), a library of dental videos, educational articles on various oral health topics, smile makeover features, expert consultations addressing patient questions, and dental marketing services for professionals. The content covers cosmetic dentistry, dental implants, gum disease, oral surgery, pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, and general oral health education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dear Doctor - Dentistry & Oral Health Magazine A patient education dental magazine written exclusively by dental healthcare professionals for the general public, featuring articles, consultations, and educational content on dentistry and oral health topics. Available digitally with past issues accessible online.
• Dental Videos Video content covering dental procedures, smile makeovers, and oral health education for general consumers.
• Dental Articles Educational articles on various dentistry and oral health topics including tooth decay, dental implants, cosmetic dentistry, gum disease, and more, written for the general public.
• Consultations Question-and-answer consultations written by dental professionals addressing patient concerns about oral health topics.
• Dental Marketing (for Professionals) Marketing services and resources specifically designed for dental professionals to support practice growth and patient acquisition.

Quantifiable outcome

• Tooth decay is the most common disease in the world, making oral health education a high-need area served by Dear Doctor's content library

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• WebMD: WebMD is one of the largest consumer health information publishers, with a substantial oral-health section that competes with Dear Doctor for general-consumer dental search queries. As a broad health incumbent, WebMD covers all of Dear Doctor's topic categories with significantly larger content and SEO authority.
• Healthline: Healthline is a major consumer health publisher with detailed dental and oral-health editorial content reviewed by clinicians. It competes with Dear Doctor for the same consumer dental search audience and operates with substantially larger content, SEO, and paid-acquisition capabilities as a broad health incumbent.
• Crest (Procter & Gamble): Crest, owned by Procter & Gamble, runs a consumer oral-care education site with extensive dentist-authored content on oral hygiene, cosmetic dentistry, and product education. It overlaps with Dear Doctor's consumer dental education offering but is funded by a CPG incumbent with much greater production and paid-media scale.
• Colgate Oral Care: Colgate-Palmolive operates a large consumer oral-care content hub on colgate.com featuring dentist-reviewed articles and oral-health education. It is a broader incumbent in the consumer dental education category with substantially larger content and marketing resources than Dear Doctor, and competes for the same consumer search traffic.

Direct peers

• Know Your Teeth: Know Your Teeth is the consumer dental education portal of the Academy of General Dentistry, offering dentist-authored articles and oral-health resources for the general public. It is structurally analogous to Dear Doctor, functioning as a dental-society-backed consumer education publication in the same niche.
• Spear Education: Spear Education provides clinical and practice-marketing education and resources to dental professionals. It overlaps with Dear Doctor's dental-professional marketing services segment and competes for dental-practice marketing spend, although its primary focus is professional clinical education rather than consumer-facing content.
• Your Dentistry Guide: Your Dentistry Guide is a consumer dental education resource covering procedures, conditions, and oral health topics aimed at the same general-public segment Dear Doctor targets. It shares the same advertising-supported content model and competes for overlapping dental-procedure search keywords.
• MouthHealthy: MouthHealthy is the American Dental Association's consumer-facing dental education website. It is the closest functional peer to Dear Doctor: both deliver authoritative, dentist-authored oral-health educational content to U.S. consumers in the same topic categories, with overlapping SEO competition on the same keywords.
• Dentistry Today: Dentistry Today is a long-running dental professional publication covering clinical, practice management, and product news for dentists. It is comparable to Dear Doctor's dental-professional-facing content and the magazine format used to reach practitioners and dental marketing customers.
• Animated-Teeth.com: Animated-Teeth.com is a long-running consumer dental education site that publishes detailed articles, animations, and procedural guides on cosmetic dentistry, implants, and orthodontics. It directly competes with Dear Doctor for the same consumer dental search audience with similar article-format educational content.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/deardoctor
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dear-doctor-inc

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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